[pct-l] TP ???

[David Margavage]

I think they pick up the dog poop so we don't step in it I think?  But I'm
with you about biodegradable paper.

On 1/24/09, sue.kettles at comcast.net <sue.kettles at comcast.net> wrote:
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> Please don't jump all over me, because I really would like to know.  In 20
> years of backpacking, I have never had that happen... digging a hole and
> finding something.  Guess I'm just lucky.  When I did a trial bury of TP in
> my back yard, in the fall, by spring, it was pretty well disintegrated. (I
> do live in Oregon - so it rains alot here)  It is a tree source after all...
> and if its not perfumed and colored, whats the big deal burying it the right
> depth if in the right terrain??  I don't want to be ignorant, but I don't
> want to do something that is maybe, at this moment, the new "right way".
> Like people picking up their dog crap in plastic bags and putting it in the
> garbage can?  How is that supposed to help the environment when it will take
> much longer to decompose in a landfill in that plastic baggy.  Someone with
> knowlege,...please,  I'd love to understand.
>
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> HJ
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>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "patti kulesz" <peprmintpati88 at yahoo.com>
> To: afishnamedcarl at gmail.com, pct-l at backcountry.net, "AsABat"
> <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2009 10:29:23 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] TP ???
>
> it really sux too when one tries to find a spot to go and digs up a bunch
> of someone else's TP and ...well u know....
>
> patti
>
> --- On Sat, 1/24/09, AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net> wrote:
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> From: AsABat <AsABat at 4Jeffrey.Net>
> Subject: Re: [pct-l] TP ???
> To: afishnamedcarl at gmail.com, pct-l at backcountry.net
> Date: Saturday, January 24, 2009, 5:32 PM
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> It's very easy to put the used TP in a ziploc-type back and pack it out.
>
>
> Burying it in the hole gets ugly when a critter digs it up (yes, they
> do), or rain washes just enough soil away to reveal the TP streamer.
>
> Burning it is a really bad idea. I thruhiker started a wildfire a couple
> years ago doing that.
>
> AsABat
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>
> >  What's the deal with TP. Pack in pack out or leave it in the whole.
> > Obviously taking it out is better but no one likes carring used tp
> with
> > them.
>
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